Problems with CPIO/Archive 150M tape
Andy Burgess
aab at cichlid.com
Sun Dec 2 08:20:03 AEST 1990
In article <3352 at ns-mx.uiowa.edu> isca at icaen.uiowa.edu (Iowa Student Computer Assoc) writes:
>
>Not being that familiar with Sys V, I'd like some help...
>I was trying to help a person today do some backup on his unix box. The
>config is as follows:
>
> Intel 386 Computer, etc.
> Archive V2150S (150 Meg SCSI tape drive)
> Interactive Unix 2.2
>
>He had been doing backup using D600A tapes left over from an older system.
>Today, cpio suddenly decided to hang part way through the backup. Now,
>these really aren't the correct tapes - (I forget the correct #) but
DC6150 are the 150Mb tapes.
>they seemed to work - apparently until they get to the end of the tape.
>My question is: should cpio give an error when it gets to the end of the
>tape, or is there a way to tell the drive that it has a 60M tape instead?
>
DC 600A tape hold about 120Mb using an Archive 2150S. You may need to tell
your cpio that the tapes are 120Mb not 150Mb tapes. I don't believe that the
drive can tell the difference between 600A and 6250.
Then again, I may be off base. You didn't say exactly what the error was.
Andy
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